Silverbridge Harps GFC explained

Club Gaa:Silverbridge Harps GFC
Irish:Cláirsigh Bhéal Atha an Airgid
Crest:Silverbridge Harps Gaelic Football Club logo.jpg
Founded:1887
Province:Ulster
County:Armagh
Colours:Gold with blue hoop
Grounds:Keeley Park (Páirc Uí Chaollaí)
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Silverbridge Harps Gaelic Football Club (Irish: Cláirsigh Bhéal Atha an Airgid) is a Gaelic football club in southern County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is based in the parish of Upper Creggan, including the village of Silverbridge and surrounding townlands. Silverbridge plays at Keeley Park (Irish: Páirc Uí Chaolla),[1] as part of the Armagh GAA and is currently in the Armagh Intermediate Football Championship.

History

The first GAA club in the parish, the Carnally William Orr's, was established in 1887, as one of the earliest in Armagh. This club dissolved after the 1888 Annual Congress and the Parnell split. A revived team, Silverbridge, played for one season in 1906, but although football continued in the locality, it was not until about 1920 that the club reformed. This club reached the semi-final of the Armagh Senior Football Championship in 1924.[2]

A new Silverbridge Harps club was organised in September 1935, and in 1937 reached the county Junior Championship Final. The club then disappeared but was again reformed in 1942. In 1945, a Silverbridge selection including players from two other Junior clubs, Whitecross and Mullaghbawn,[2] reached the Senior Championship Final only to lose to St Malachy's of Armagh city.[3]

In 1953 Silverbridge lost the Junior Championship Final to Mullaghbawn,[2] but the Harps' first county title came in 1959, when they won the Armagh Junior Football Championship, defeating Ballyhegan.[4]

In 1972 Silverbridge won the Armagh Intermediate Football Championship, defeating Oliver Plunkett's by 3-04 to 1-06.[5] In the same year the club won Division 2 of the All County League, and did so again in 1984, 1989 and 1991. Promoted to Division One, Silverbridge won that title in 1992 and 1994, but was relegated to Division Two in 2002.

Notable players

Honours

Notes and References

  1. http://www.armaghgaa.net/scorbook2011.pdf Armagh GAA, pg 10
  2. Club history in LocalLotto.ie website
  3. [Armagh GAA]
  4. [Armagh GAA]
  5. Armagh GAA, Clár Oifigiúil, Craobh Idirmheánach Peile (IFC final programme), 6 October 2012
  6. Web site: Jarly Óg Burns set to return to Armagh squad after reversing decision to take a year out: The Silverbridge clubman, whose father Jarlath will become GAA president next year, will make himself available to Kieran McGeeney after initially opting to take a break from county football. Tierney. Paddy. Belfast Live. 10 December 2023.